broke with groups against manuel mccrone strip. demonstrations against mccrone came after he said he would not be giving additional funding to the impoverished region explaining it was a father christmas on twitter well some french politicians the far from impressed by the president's comment we spoke there to people magazine about mccrone his latest. book is very sure of himself in a bit of good to showed it recently we are saying that he's not santa claus the people who are poor and have problems but he did it also in france recently using words that i wouldn't use on the new scene or but that evolved or the french left or right it's not a matter of politics consider him as out of control we now after several cases like that one of course should not give away public money without really looking at what they do knew he was right in saying of course that a lot of money's being spent in going on not that there are real problems but it's not a recent to to show where his expression or to show his northerns at the fact that people com

isn't political opponents are at odds and they don't have a clear leader mccrone strength is partly due to the weakness of his opponents. at the same time there are signs the economy is improving. so the french are more likely to feel optimistic about the future. the greater danger according to perry know is that the young presidents with rise to power and newfound celebrity will distance him from his own base of. just being knows that for this reason people like her play an important role. the danger now is that there will be more and more tension that aggression towards the government will pileup and divisions will appear that's why it's important to explain the purpose of the reforms so that people once again can identify with these political goals. without supporters like just seen touting the government's agenda it's possible the new president's approval ratings could drop even further. what inevitably happens when you start this is are cut and education and police are starved of funding the austerity measures introduced in britain in the wake of the financial crisis didn't invent

political opponents are at odds and they don't have a clear leader mccrone strength is partly due to the weakness of his opponents. at the same time there are signs the economy is improving. so the french are more likely to feel optimistic about the future. the greater danger according to perry no is that the young presidents with rise to power and newfound celebrity will distance him from his own base. just being knows that for this reason people like her play an important role. the danger now is that there will be more and more tension that aggression towards the government will pileup and divisions will appear that's why it's important to explain the purpose of the reforms so that people once again can identify with these political goals. without supporters like just seen touting the government's agenda it's possible the new president's approval ratings could drop and further. what inevitably happens when you thought services are cut and education and policing are starved of funding the austerity measures introduced in britain in the wake of the financial crisis didn't invent knif

to have better decisions and this is what they've been telling us they're going to lose currently mccrone is a president for the reach the rights of public workers are violated not protected to told. we're waiting for him to fulfill his promises sleazeball he has not kept and the university made to the public sector judging by the measures he's taken he's concerned about the rich. of the population would like a balance a social equity wall says i thought it was for me just part of the fight against the labor law and the ordinances of the french government so what's the impact on service is across france well the union saved fifty five percent of teachers in paris at taking part in the strike today meaning that seventy schools have been closed many hospitals judicial services on tribunals will see delays as a result of these protests on many airlines have canceled their flights with the civil aviation authority telling allies to cancel at least thirty percent of their flights which is left many people stranded in france but the one thing that unites . all of the people taking part in this

president has found himself in the media spotlight again for the wrong reasons this time emanuel mccrone was visiting a struggling company with some strong words for the country's working class charlotte devinsky reports from paris. khan was visiting that training center in central france on wednesday when he was basically outside there was a protest taking place by the g.s. and. and it's thought that he was aiming his comments at these workers who have been under threat of redundancy now for around ten months and basically he said that instead of protesting they should perhaps be out looking forward albeit in far fruity language let's take a listen to what mr actually said and i have found you'd. be better off saying if we could get a job over there romans stirring up some fourth occasions and it's not that far for them to go it is not the first time that mr. controversy over some of his comments and people saying that he's basically sort of said very bad things about the working class showing contempt for them he's previously talked about illiterate people and people who use the bus to

of course will be very interesting to see what mr mccrone says next charlotte reporting live from paris thank you from the update. the latest statement has sparked reaction online. the f.b.i. is being sued by a victim of an islamic state inspired attack in two thousand and fifteen at a controversial cartoon drawing contest in texas a lawsuit alleges that the bureau may have been complicit in the terrorist incident by not acting on early warning signs and girlfriends ontario has more. the f.b.i. is under fire accused of encouraging a terror attack the accusation comes from a security guard who is taking his case to court bruce joyner was wounded in two thousand and fifteen and in iceland speier terrorist attack targeting the draw mohammed contest in garland texas. both of them had assault rifles came around the back of the car and started shooting. now garland could have been a massive tragedy but mr joiner along with other guards and the police managed to stop the terrorists now he wants to get to the bottom of this quite shocking revelation bruce who's been a loyal law enforcement offi

coming up in the program some of france's working class the present mccrone as a leader for the rich and his latest comments aren't doing anything to help that image that story and more after a short break. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. we somehow want to be rich. but you'd like to be crushed that's what before three of the more people. interested always in the waters of my. first sit. down. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporate corporations from washington washington controls the media the media. voters elected businessmen to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. the french president has found himself in the media spotlight again for the wrong reasons this time my manual mccrone the has some strong words for the country's working class while visiting a struggling company. there are some who'd be better off significant get the job done rather

crew captured the moment president among all mccrone was rudely interrupted during a ministerial meeting by his dog the pet named emo sauntered into the room and into it dozens of fireplace instead of pounding the pup a junior ministers in the hall laughed off the in this incident it is not known if the president's office is looking for a new dog trainer you get your reminder now of our top stories this hour the un has made an appeal to donors more than four hundred million dollars in aid work for him to muslims that money would fund relief efforts and so february nearly six hundred thousand range you have fled violence and million or more for neighboring bangladesh. that's a news update thanks so much for joining us here good of you news from berlin. surely that people of the world over.

address alleged human rights violations by egypt's security forces but at a joint press conference mr mccrone declined to criticize cc's record saying he had no wish to hand out lessons without taking the context into account. a gunman has a shot and wounded a bodyguard to kenya's deputy chief justice in nairobi now the judge philomena him will do was not in the car at the time police are treating the incident as a robbery but an investigation is ongoing the incident comes two days before kenya is due to hold a repeat presidential election. china's ruling communist party has confirmed president xi jinping as its most powerful leader in decades by adding his name and his ideology to the country's constitution at the end of the party's five year or five year early congress delegates voted unanimously to include being thought as a guiding principle giving president xi the same level of prominence as party founder dawn and perhaps marking the start of a new era for the country. pulling ahead of the pack the chinese team leads the fleet at the world's most challenging ocean sailing event the volvo

i never thought after mccrone populism would go away.on't think risk is a linear you you have to look at each situation closely. --ulism many thanks manifests itself in many ways. what progress can we expect? there was expectation that europe was going to take a step forward. is that a reality? >> it will be incremental. this is the problem with integration. every time there is a strong leader there is hope for integration. it has never happened like that. incremental, reforms over a number of years. still, theknow important thing is that mccrone has changed his course. the table some blue because they did not want to. i think they will have some incremental change. why is it going to take as long as it is? this is the gravitational center of europe and it is going to take months to form a new government. what does that tell us about the politics of europe? >> they are highly fragmented. we have seen a number of elections where they are recommended, remover how long it took. the get -- the netherlands. we parties under huge stress. parli

sebastian kurtz is the young leader of the austrian people's party and like french president amanda mccrone has inspired some of the unlikeliest of candidates like martin a practicing psychotherapist to run for a seat in the upcoming elections. it was early in the morning and martin engle bank isn't ready out canvassing so far he's getting a lukewarm response. up on film are you now and then someone will stop for a quick chat and say something encouraging in passing like i'm voting for you anyway looking good. but it's too early in the morning for in-depth political discussions which is the film but they're right it is looking pretty good for angle bag he's with the sebastien courts list as the conservative austrian people's party or ovi p. is named on the ballot it's currently leading in the polls. the election campaign is entering its critical phase. there's a festive atmosphere at the v.a. national. when ten thousand have gathered to see sebastien costs martin angle bag has brought his kids along. but that's about it with anything else about string cans was probably the first top politic

top talking con in a condescending way to to the people or president mccrone has made a series of other remarks to that haven't well in the past here are some examples. but instead of celebrating the great. undercover policing has taken place the project. often used. to be. support. between nine hundred fifty nine. and eight. different groups and she writes organizations and. relationships with them to win their trust while working on the cover. some of the victims and apologized to. fear that such practices still continue more. put i haven't got yet is any information at all not one single scrap of detail about why these people were targeting them why they had their life simple trade to this extent and why they found themselves sometimes in an intimate relationship with somebody who was being paid to spy on them the reason i feel the forties so to spy on the west in general is because they consider them less afraid to. purportedly. against national security we don't actually know whether they still live for treating him but if they continue to do that and of course there is now the dig

attracting a rich people to invest in france is always a similar agreement but mr mccrone forgot that france is one of the. best country for already the best country for. foreign investment mr marquand was elected we with them and yet you can rest presented by him in the media is like a new president meeting would change things and it was a lie because what he's proposing is this same old politics that this is only been the first beneficiary for the rich are seeing the impact will be that less and less people believe. and that is popularity will go down. collect giant among has been kicked out of the european parliament it's lobbyists were banned after refusing to attend hearing it was about whether secret studies into the safety of monsanto products were flawed or exaggerated for commercial ends lawmakers also slammed the secrecy surrounding the studies. how can we be sure of developed conclusions about the safety or otherwise of life a state when there is lack of transparency when it is publicly revealed by the latest us court cases that the scientific data provided by the company e

it will hurt your shins and this is what they've been telling us they're going to lose currently mccrone is a president for the reach the rights of public workers are violated not protected to told. we're waiting for him to fulfill his promises sleazeball he has not kept and here very soon made to the public sector judging by the measures he's taken he's concerned about the rich. of the population who would like a balance top a social equity wall says i thought it was for me just part of the fight against the labor law and the ordinances of the french government so what's the impact on service is across france well the union say fifty five percent of teachers in paris a taking part in the strike today can mean that seventy schools have been closed many hospitals judicial services on tribunals will see delays as a result of these protests on many airlines have canceled their flights with the civil aviation authority telling allies to cancel at least thirty percent of their flights which is left many people stranded in france but the one thing that you know. it's all of the people taking p

they called it a victory when a body was in paris where he's meeting france's president and manual mccrone has offered to help with mediation efforts between iraq central government and kurdish leaders those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream that's coming up next thank you for watching. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs the much as. i am. in your in the stream of life on al-jazeera and you too the death toll in puerto rico from hurricane maria has jumped to thirty four and could rise even higher and as the u.s. territory continues the recovery effort is helping out.

injured as clashes broke out with groups against a manual mccrum strip the demonstrations against mccrone came after he said that he would not be giving additional funding to that impoverished region explaining that he wasn't father christmas on twitter didn't go down well in all quarters some french politicians were fall from impressed by the president's comment we spoke to the editor in chief of the people magazine about the latest. he is very sure of himself in a bit of good to you showed it recently we are saying that he's not son because the people who are poor and have problems but he did it also and from this recently i'm using words that i wouldn't use on on the news you know or a very vulgar the french left or right it's not a matter of politics consider him as out of control we now after several cases like that the government of course should not give away public money without really looking at what they do it was right in saying of course there is a lot of money's being spent and we are not that that are real problems but it's not a reason to to show his excess brazen or to sho

al gore huge currently mccrone is a president for the reach the rights of public workers are violated not protected to told follow stall where to play him to fulfill his promises so far he has not kept any of those he made to the public sector. so what's the impact of the strike so far as these thousands of people have full go on their jobs today with this is a strike across the civil service so we know that here in paris around fifty five percent of teachers are on strike that seventy schools being closed as a result of that no interest on the hospital services judiciary services are being delayed across the country as their union members also take part in this strike and we know that thirty percent of flights in frauds have been granted today they were warned by the civil aviation authority just in the last few days to reduce the number of flights leaving many people stranded here in france but the one thing that unites all of the people who are protesting is that there are unhappy about what they see as a government for the rich and the taxes which are hard hitting the working clas

protests the reforms fast tracked by executive order make it easier for firms to hire and fire employees mccrone says they will help quote free up the energy of the workforce at least three people have reportedly been shot dead in togo as games of youths clashed with security forces who were trying to prevent an opposition demonstration the opposition in the west african nation is calling for the resignation of the president his family has ruled that country since one nine hundred sixty eight. pakistan's former prime minister no one has been indicted on corruption charges the charges stem from leaked documents known as the panama papers investigators say the documents showed the sharif family held unreported assets over to see the family has denied any wrongdoing. kurdish female militias have valen to fight on to liberate syrian women from the rule of so-called islamic state the announcement was made today during celebrations to mark the liberation of raka but with much of his former stronghold lying in ruins the hardships facing civilians are far from over. nearly a month after germany's electi

bar they call it a victory but a body was in paris where he's meeting france's president and manual mccrone has offered to help with mediation efforts between a rock central government and kurdish leaders those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream that's coming up next thank you for watching. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that. i am find and meaning in your in the stream live on al-jazeera and you too the death toll in puerto rico from hurricane maria has jumped to thirty four and could rise even higher and as the u.s. territory continues the recovery effort who is helping out. we are here. the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out the logistics for island of one hundred miles thirty five miles. so maybe. we are. it's been two weeks since the strongest hurricane to hit puerto rico in ninety years made landfall delivering a massive blow to the u.s. territory hurricane maria decimated the island's infrastructure the storm snappe

anglo-american chose to pursue her own agenda she joined emmanuelle mccrone for a coffee and a chat about reforming the european union and then there was the issue of turkey's bed for e.u. membership while merkel stopped short of calling for an end to a session talks he pressed other leaders to cut you funding for the bed. he said to add to no mention of the human rights situation is absolutely and satisfactory so is turkey's moving away step by step from what we see as a state under the rule of law and of course they also talked about how we suffer from the situation that german citizens have been wrongfully jailed in turkey. and thirty seven years in the took office and. to resume a left the summit empty handed after pressing her cunt parts over dinner for a deal she can defend at home on day two leaders will gather for more discussions on bragg's it less time without the protest prime minister. more now let's cross over to brussels where our correspondent is standing by a lot to talk about this e.u. summit theresa may asking the e.u. to to hurry up and help her silence her critics back

the emergency services responding to the appalling attack in las vegas french president and manuel mccrone also reaching out saying our thoughts are moved by our american partners and friends two years ago a gunman opened fire at a concert in the bath the club theater in paris killing eighty nine canadian prime minister justin trudeau said words fail this morning the friendship and support of canadians is with the victims in las vegas and the people of the u.s. and we know some canadians were among those dead and while mexican president and take opinion at the expressed his deepest condolences with the people of the united states and russian prime minister dmitri medvedev tweeting i am shocked by the tragedy in las vegas the crime is striking in its violence and cynicism as we know the shooter opened fire on a country music festival from thirty two floors up there were twenty two thousand people in attendance down below again more than five hundred people are injured at least fifty eight dead now as that b.-i and other law enforcement continue to investigate the shooter and a possible moti

dispute spain's promised minister money on that a whore has the backing of french president emmanuel mccrone and german chancellor angela merkel they met ahead of a two day summit in brussels european council later donald tusk has ruled out any european union role in the dispute between madrid and barcelona. of course for many reasons in the permanent conductor is the prime minister mariano rajoy. hiding to the situation in spain is about to. position i mean. it's. clear the. room no space for in the kind of mediation. initiative action. spain's government is preparing to suspend autonomy after a final deadline on thursday to draw up succession plans was ignored the process will begin on saturday when madrid decides which powers to take back from barcelona may barca reports from the cost along capital. spain's political crisis is deepening after failing to comply with the spanish government catalonia will now be stripped of its autonomy more cylindrical mock you for in the absence of a clear response we note that he has not answered our request and therefore we will continue procedure of tri

of just two were made in pockets of territory held by eisel and iraq and presses president maduro mccrone has offered to help with mediation efforts with iraq's central government and kurdish leaders after last week's secession referendum across the net the locky prime minister hyder. some u.s. republicans are considering a backing a push by democrats to ban modifications that make guns fire more rapidly following the las vegas shootings the gunman used a vice is called stocks to make his gun function as automatic weapons fifty eight people were killed in that attack more than five hundred entered. his president as valid to stop kurdish leaders some to clearing an independent state from iraq. says the kurdish authorities have no legitimacy he met iranian president hassan rouhani in tehran to discuss secession efforts he also held talks. with iran supreme leader who accuse the west of trying to create a new israel and the middle east. has more from istanbul. president rouhani and erdogan on opposing sides over syria but together in their reaction to the kurdish referendum next door in iraq

little clip a leader who some say tried to do the opposite of that this is french president emanuel mccrone in august this is his first major foreign policy speech and this is what inside as you say the security looking sit where you feel. the least. priority the little political. we. the city. community represent children couldn't you. couldn't. you holler for fundamentalistic pretty certain is. mccown goes on to say and i'm paraphrasing here we mustn't be naive and we mustn't be over afraid of islam we mustn't confuse islamists and islam and we mustn't look at the millions of muslims that live in europe with suspicion and so some would say there's a bit of a complicating message there and others are saying he's trying to spark parts apart semantics what's your take on it and you know that you know yeah i think you are some are summarizing the point is exactly the conflicting messages that he's sending he's right on one thing that the muslims cannot keep on saying it has nothing to do with islam and these people who are killing that. book or her for example have nothing to do with it's not

anybody who's been studying european politics the last couple of years should or should not it is that mccrone zbig sure it would and the far right in the in europe the u.s. . so sure that you know what goes on in europe matters all that much to. i haven't seen a whole lot of evidence that are right about there is and thank you you thank. still ahead on al-jazeera calling for loved ones one man takes on the task of reuniting ringgit children who are lost in the refugee camps in bangladesh. from the mites of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello and welcome back our typhoon that is continuing to make its way towards vietnam now it gives a very heavy rain across in china and hong kong is picking up outer bands of that system so pretty wet there through the course of monday as we head on through into choose day then it becomes vietnam's problem our computer forecaster caught the rain quite a long way north but it could well turn out to move further towards us so some more of a problem for central vietnam and then eventually lies about states and dry conditions for hong kong taipei's looking

present mccrone should not continue a scandalous policy of french told him and it's towards the repressive government of l.c.c. and should not pretend that the human rights question will be evoked drawing his visit without acting on this means that the demands of the suffering of egyptians will be swept under the carpet. a saudi court has cleared a construction company over a crane crash in mecca in two thousand and fifteen which left at least one hundred ten people dead it ruled that the bin laden group did not need to compensate victims or pay for damages to the grand mosque as the disaster was not caused by human error or thirteen employees in charge of operating the crane were quoted. al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist ahmed his saying he's now been in prison in egypt for more than three hundred days is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny mahmud has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail it was arrested in december while visiting his family the philippine government has declared victory in its five month bat

now france's president emanuel mccrone has offered to help mediate between iraq central government and kurdish leaders last week for secession referendum. we have particularly interested in the stability of iraq in the upcoming weeks and months we hope very much that there will be dialogue that is respectful of the integrity of iraq and we would also like to advocate that in the framework of the constitution a recognition of the kurds should take place there is a long towards political inclusion but it must also make sure that the constitution is respected. has more on our bodies a visit to paris he was here just to talk about certificate they did however talk about the referendum. even offering to mediate to try and calm the situation in his words he said that it was very important that iraq remained united. rights of the kurdish people as for the iraqi prime minister he said that this referendum is illegal but he wasn't looking for any confrontation with the kurdish forces now the two men also touched on a number of other issues about closer cooperation in areas such as science and e

as a direct challenge to their power to use the showdown may just be a taste of things to come as mccrone presses ahead with his reforms. on monday britain's prime minister terrorism aide told parliament that breaks it negotiations are now in the e.u.'s courts and one of the issues the two sides need to nail down before discussing trade terms is the border between northern ireland which belongs to britain and the republic of ireland which is part of the e.u. it's a thorny issue because no other e.u. country depends on trade with the u.k. like ireland and the locals are getting more nervous as talks drag on with no solution and sides. there are over ninety thousand companies on the emerald isle that survive on trade with britain many of them are farmers sixty percent of the brief output goes to the u.k. dairy and other projects would be like over and all our stuff is usually in par. but it is becoming increasingly clear that arlen needs britain a lot more than vice versa. so hard i would call them to go and that's going to affect our our prices because you care to be able to go or why you

have better with her decisions and this is what they've been telling us all here really is currently mccrone is the president for the reach the rights of public workers are violated not protected to told follow stole their way through point to fulfill his promises to be fiercely for he has not kept and university made to the public sector judging by the measures he's taken he's concerned about the rich. of the republic and would like to balance the top of social equity the law says i thought it was for me just part of the fight against the labor law and the ordinance of the french government so what's the impact on services across france well the unions say fifty five percent of the teach is in paris a taking part in the strike today meaning that seventy schools have been closed many hospitals judicial services and tribunals will see delays as a result of these protests on many airlines have canceled their flights with the civil aviation authority telling allies to cancel at least thirty percent of their flights which is left many people stranded in france but the one thing that unites all o